A Child’s Prayer About Love

As Christians, we are expected to love other people, both our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, as well as other people who don’t believe in Jesus (1 John 4:8)(Luke 10:25-37). It is written in the Bible that if we truly know God, then we will love others because God is love. It also says in the Bible that those who have been truly born of God love other people (1 John 4:7).

Here is one simple prayer that you can pray about loving others:

Father in heaven, thank You for loving me and sending Your Son Jesus to die for my sins so that I may be forgiven and can become your child and live a holy life. I love You because You loved me first. Help me, Father, to always love others, so that I will always be kind, gentle, generous, and compassionate to others. If You have loved me, then I should also love others. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

What does the Bible say about love in 1 Corinthians 13?

1 Corinthians talks about love and what it precisely means in verses 1-13. 

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Reading from the given verses from 1 Corinthians 13 shows us that real love is not selfish. That is why it does not envy or boast, is not arrogant, rude, irritable, or resentful, because those things are selfish. Instead, real biblical love is selfless by its very nature. That is why it is patient and kind, does not insist its own way, rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endure all things. Verse 8 also tells us that real love never ceases. Only genuine love rooted in selflessness can do that. If we claim to love others, yet we are impatient, then that is not real biblical love.

You can turn 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 into a prayer. Here is one of the ways you pray it:

Heavenly Father, just as You have loved me, give me the grace to love others as well with a real biblical kind of love. May it be the kind of love that is patient, kind, does not insist on its own way, rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Help me always to love selflessly. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

What is the highest form of love?

The highest form of love is called the “agape” kind of love. 1 Corinthians 13 uses the word “agape” in its original Greek language. Agape love is a sacrificial kind of love for the good of others. The greatest example of this is when Jesus sacrificed Himself to die for our sins on the cross, so that He would pay the penalty of our sin and that we may be able to have eternal life in Him (Romans 5:8). Agape love only comes from God. In fact, the Bible says that God is love Himself (1 John 4:8). That is why we can never love people with a truly biblical kind of love unless we have encountered and know God, who is love. Thus, it is no wonder why God is steadfast, loving, gracious, merciful, benevolent, good, and faithful to His children.

How does God want us to love?

God wants us to love others with the same agape love that He has shown us. That means we ought to love others with a sacrificial kind of love, for the good of others. We ought to be compassionate to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. If our fellow brother/sister in Christ is weeping, we ought to weep with them and rejoice with them if they are rejoicing. We ought to always do good to them and be generous to them if they are in need. We ought to love them with the same kind of love that God gave us. Jesus tells us in John 15:13 that greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. The same applies to the people we know who don’t believe in Jesus or people whom we have nothing to do with, similar to the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). Hopefully, we don’t just turn a blind eye to a stranger in need. That being said, we ought to exercise wisdom and common sense when interacting with people we don’t know.

Knowing that we ought to love others with an “agape” kind of love, here is a simple prayer you can pray as you love other people:

Heavenly Father, I thank You for this undeserved love You have given me. I can only love others with an agape kind of love because of You, who loved me first. Help me, Father, that out of my love for You, I shall also love others, loving them sacrificially and doing things for their good and benefit. Let everything I do for others always be motivated by love, Father, and rooted in selflessness. Give me the grace to always think about the good of others, rather than myself. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

This “agape” kind of love that we ought to show others is the same kind of love that we should show towards our enemies. Jesus commanded us to love our enemies. It may be hard, but it is what we should do. We will need God’s grace and help to love our enemies. God did the same thing with us. We were also once His enemy, because we were sinners, but now, we have become His children, because He sent Jesus His Son to die for our sins out of His love. If God, who is holy and righteous, the One above all, showed us love, then we should also show love to our enemies.